Film · 1976 · Films · 1970s
The Town That Dreaded Sundown
Scored from 117 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 1970s (2,406 peers).
Summary
A masked killer known as 'The Phantom' terrorizes residents of Texarkana, Texas. Based on true 1940s events, the film follows a series of brutal attacks that grip the small community with fear and suspicion.
The Town That Dreaded Sundown (1976) is a film IMDb files under the crime, drama and horror genres. Its country of origin is listed as the United States. It runs 1h 26m.
The calibrated figure is built from 117 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 118 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead. The cohort it is ranked inside is 1970s films — 2,406 of them.
How the score was built
We compare the reviewers of this title against every other title those same people reviewed. Each review is scored relative to the reviewer's own baseline — a 7/10 from a hard grader sits well above their average, while a 7/10 from a generous grader sits below theirs. Every reviewer then counts the same, so the result is a calibrated consensus rather than a raw average.
- Global percentile
- Where The Town That Dreaded Sundown lands against every title we rank.
- In-cohort percentile
- The same comparison narrowed to its cohort — titles of the same format released in the same decade. A 1970s film is judged against 1970s films, not against last year's streaming series. Ranked against Films · 1970s (2,406 titles).
- AI-adjusted percentile
- The same reviewer-normalized score, corrected for how much confidence the sample supports: thin samples are pulled toward the corpus average. Each title keeps the share n / (n + 53) of its measured distance from the average, where n is its calibrated-reviewer count, and the result is ranked on the same scale as the global percentile.53 is the median sample size across everything we rank. Here n is 117.
Cohort: Films · 1970s
